Breaking free of the curse of the gifted

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I would love to see treatment of this material added as part of standard "AG" class structure.

What is this "AG" class structure? I've never heard of it, and Google wasn't very helpful.

I'm assuming this: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_a...

which I pulled from Google but I totally agree with you that it's not that helpful, since it mostly talks about agriculture courses.

"Academically Gifted", or that's what they called it when I was in school.

Would a 'genius' really be asking for advice on how to work hard?

Yes.

I know people who cruised through High School and then a Bachelors degree without working. They were accepted on a doctoral program and found that they had no idea how to work. No idea at all.

At least this character knows to ask for help.

You know how you scarequoted the word genius to invoke a specific definition that you don't believe is really real?

It's really real.

Learn to do something that brains don't directly help: Karate, Customer Service, Sales, Welding, Drawing, etc.

Did you read the article before commenting? You simply parroted point number one (of three) in the article with no apparent acknowledgment that you have done so.

I see this happening in more and more articles, e.g., the Ask HN nutrition post that asked for more scientific versions of 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' and received highly upvoted comments like 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' I don't think there's much we can do about it.

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